Recent Content by Ozzie

I'm with fergus, the only way a grape gets into my body is by the fermentation process. cheers :D

That is the answer I'm afraid, they truly don't know, of if they did, will not pass on the information for fear of jobs, litigation etc. I've got a Council meeting tonight, one of the topics on the agenda is health again, about the rising epidemic of diabetes, obesity and other related problems...

low carb here as well, 20g a day max, but then i want to stay off medications altogether cause I'm rubbish at remembering to take them.

this forum is good because without it i would of ended up like my mother. brief history, my mother grew up in a world with no internet. my mother got the standard lectures on diabetes, how it was her fault, stick to this diet and in 10 years we'll look at the problems. my mother is now one leg...

i will state now, I've not been on a course, so I might be wrong. i got offered the Desmond course when i got diagnosed, all i say thank god i can use the internet. I looked at the general advice offered, figured it was wrong. so never bothered. I do scientific studies as part of my work so...

munchies is not something i suffer with as a general rule, when I've had a few drinks i do get kind of peckish so always have different cheeses in the fridge for emergencies.

next visit, stamp ya feet very rapidly, stick ya thumbs in ya ears and wiggle ya fingers while shouting you're a nincompoop lol, won't achieve anything but be fun :-)

carrots and parsnips, ouch, nearly as bad as bread and potatoes. have ya checked your readings after eating them.

personally speaking as a pure sceptic would say most of all if not 99 % of Chinese medicine is a pot of crocs. that said , i did have a few friends who said an ear piercing did relieve them of back suffering

just found out tonight that fruit shoot drinks are 0.8 g of carbs per 100 ml in a 300 ml bottle, 2.4 g of garbs in all. but then both my kids are checking everything they eat and drink now lol signs of progress lol

think yourself lucky. had to go on terraces tonight to watch Dartford play. snow followed by thundering hailstones ****** that for non league lol

go with you on the kippers, I love fish. some things I have for brekkie when in a rush. Lazy breakfasts. smoked mackerel, can eat that cold straight out the wrapper. various different tins of tunas, mackerels or sardines, straight out the tin. frankfurter type sausages, eaten cold hunk of...

Quite frankly, if anybody actually reads the medicine notes on lipitor or other statins they wouldn't bother taking them in the first place. http://emc.medicines.org.uk/emc/assets/ ... ICAL_PARTS all it takes is a bit of common sense and a little math to work out that statins are of little use...

eeek, wish I'd known sooner it's 2am on the 22nd and Im still insomniacated lol so probably going to be up for a few more hours. just spent the evening at a presentation from boots about diabetes at a local diabetic support group.

:D about the jeans. my wife is starting to call me the tramp tied in the middle :D all my jeans are 38s but I'm now a 34 and i absolutely refuse to buy any new ones until i reach my target, about 30ish. so she's now used to seeing me put an extra hole in my belt so i can pull it tighter and...